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HETEROLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterology mean?
• HETEROLOGY (noun)
The noun HETEROLOGY has 1 sense:
1. (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts
Familiarity information: HETEROLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heterology" is a kind of...):
dissimilarity; unsimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Derivation:
heterologic; heterological (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)
heterologous (derived from organisms of a different but related species)
heterologous (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)
Context examples
The mismatch repair (MMR) system promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication and recombination.
(Mismatch Repair, NCI Thesaurus)
A function of the mismatch repair (MMR) system that promotes genomic fidelity by repairing base-base mismatches, insertion-deletion loops and heterologies generated during DNA replication.
(DNA Replication Proofreading, NCI Thesaurus)
Both participate in repair of a dinucleotide insertion-deletion heterology but only MutS alpha restores base-base mismatch repair and shoulders primary responsibility for mismatch correction during replication.
(DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MSH3, NCI Thesaurus)
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